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Textrous
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Hare sped off to take a leading position | 30 | 13 | HARESPED* around A; def: leading position |
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N Rengaswamy
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He spared a wounded leader | 29 | 14 | def: Leader. (He spared a )* anagram fodder. wounder -> anagram indicator |
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Satyen Nabar
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Leader spread hate, desperately wanting votes at Centre (9) | 18 | 13 | (SPREAD HATE)* - (vo)T(es): defn= leader, desperately= anagram ind, wanting= deletion ind, votes at Centre= T (middle letter of votes) |
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Gayathri Viswanath
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Leader reshaped a criminal (9) | 16 | 10 | Def- Leader Reshaped a* |
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VENKATESAN P
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That guy infiltrated parades deviously to be in the vanguard (9) | 15 | 9 | Definition: To be in the vanguard. Anno: (HE) in. (PARADES)*. That guy - He. Parades - Fodder. Deviously - Anagrind. Infiltrated - Insertion indicator. |
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N Anantakrishnan
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Lead with Spade/ Heart perhaps - no trump basically (9) | 15 | 8 | Def - Lead (verb). ( Spade heart - t)* |
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Adman_i
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He parsed a cryptic clue meaning ‘lead or command’ (9) | 13 | 7 | (HE + PARSED + A)*, Cryptic - anagrind, Clue meaning 'lead or command' (Definition) |
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Veera Raghavan
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After ministry’s initial rejection, ‘Padmashree’ cleared for Pioneer (9) | 11 | 7 | (Padmashree-m)*. Cleared: anagrind. Def: Pioneer |
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Press ahead unexpectedly knocking out Sunak, initially in lead (9) | 10 | 7 | Def: Lead, Anagram of PRESSAHEAD - S (Sunak, initially), Anagram Indicator - unexpectedly, Deletion Indicator - Knocking out |
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Dynamic Sherpa gets rewards regularly as front-runner | 10 | 6 | Charade of SHERPA*+rEwArDs; anagrind = "dynamic"; alternate letter indicator = "regularly"; definition = "front-runner" |
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Leader of parade, he's not exactly in line! (9) | 7 | 5 | (parade he's)*. Anagrind - not exactly in line. Defn - Leader. |
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Spooner's in this place, rushed to lead | 6 | 5 | Spoonerism of HERE (in this place) SPED (rushed); Def LEAD |
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Eccentric prince on vacation has a red van (9) | 6 | 5 | Def - van : eccentric - anagrind, prince on vacation = pe: pe + has + a + red = spearhead |
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On parting, Shakespeare had the leading voice | 6 | 4 | On parting = separate SHAKE (anagrind) from SPEARE HAD (fodder) the leading voice = def. Ref "Parting is such sweet sorrow..." |
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Reverend, at this point, accelerated the van (9) | 6 | 4 | Spoonerism of HERE SPED (at this point, accelerated). Indicator - Reverend. Def - van (or forefront). |
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Spooner says "Now, run to lead!" (9) | 1 | 1 | Def = to lead, spoonerism is HERE (now), SPED ("run" in past participle form) |
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After first sitting, fruit takes head start (9) | 1 | 1 | Def=start. "First Sitting" = S , "Fruit" = PEAR , "head" = HEAD => {S+PEAR+HEAD} |
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Lead turns pear-shaped, dodge facing press (9) | | 0 | (Pear-shaped)* anagram indicated by 'turns' - P (deletion indicated by 'dodge' facing letter of press), Definition: Lead (v) |
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